Ive used this awesome speed controller the Turnigy K-force, but sadly it does not work with the regular turnigy programming card, you will have to manually program it or purchase the USB card, or simply program it with your transmitter, which at first seems to be very difficulut, but once you read the 3 simple steps, its pretty easy, so here is the PDF of instruction manual for the Turnigy… Continue reading

Personally, i do not enjoy spending $140 on a speed controller (ESC) for my planes, the price is to steep for my pocket, but being in the RC hobby, i was forced by my own will to at least purchase one and see what all the hype was. So here i am after a solid -$140 “well spent” which ill explain why in a bit, i got myself a Castle Creations Phoenix 80 Brushless ESC.

I originally purchased this ESC for my wild wing running on a 5S Lipo with a Medusa inrunner motor, outputting a solid 1200 watts, click here to watch the video, there is nothing negative i can say about the Phoenix 80 except for its price. After about 50 or so runs, i connected the esc for one more flight and noticed a bright light which was a circuit burning and a loud popping sound, yup the esc had seen its last day, which brings me to the reason why it was worth spending $140. I sent the ESC back to Castle Creations and sure enough they replaced it with a brand new one. Here is the picture below. So thank you CC

Now if you own a Castle Creations ESC, you will most likely need to program it, so thanks to Bob at the field i fly at, he gave me a Castle Link USB Programming Kit.

If you don’t have one, i assume you can find one from ebay or amazon or directly from Castle.